The rickshaw carrying the body of Ghulam Nafiz, martyred in the anti-discrimination student movement, has been brought to Ganobhaban to be kept as a memorial in the July Uprising Memorial Museum.
Adviser of Ministry of Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology came to see the rickshaw at Ganabhaban on Thursday. Nahid Islam.
While handing over the rickshaw, the adviser thanked the rickshaw puller Noor Mohammad for his bravery and assured financial assistance.
This information was informed in a press release signed by Muhammad Jasim Uddin, Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology.
Adviser Nahid Islam directed the officers of his office to immediately find the rickshaw and the rickshaw driver in view of the news titled 'Nuru has sold the rickshaw with the frozen body of Nafiz' published in daily Prothom Alo on November 5.
According to the instructions of the advisor, when the rickshaw driver Noor Mohammad alias Nuru was contacted, he said that he had sold it (rickshaw) to London resident Ahsanul Kabir Siddiqui Kaiser for 35 thousand taka. Later, when Ahsanul Kabir Siddiqui was contacted, he expressed his desire to hand over the rickshaw to the July Uprising Memorial Museum. Accordingly, the rickshaw was handed over to Mahfuz Alam, Special Assistant to the Joint Convener and Principal Adviser of the July Uprising Memorial Museum on Thursday.
Golam Nafiz, a student of Banani Vidyaniketan School and College, was shot dead under the pedestrian-bridge of Farmgate in the anti-discrimination student movement on August 4 around 4:30 pm. When the police handed over the shot Nafiz to the rickshaw, he was still holding the rickshaw rod with his hands. The rickshaw puller took him to the hospital but he could not be saved. Later, the picture of this rickshaw made the whole Bangladesh cry.
